jol@sei.cmu.edu (DR. J) (03/27/91)
Hi. Last night I was zooing 'Liner.zoo and in the middle of the extracting my system gurued. When I warm booted I kept getting a error message saying "Error Validating disk, Key 38 already set". I can read off the disk but every time I try to write or delete a file, I get the system requester telling me that disk is not validated. I tried to use a program called validate but it didn't work. What can I do to validate this disk? It's a Quantum 80. I hope there is a better solution than backing up the whole disk then reformatting then restoring the files. I really can't afford the time to do that right now. Does anyone have a better solution? Thanks, ################################################################################ jol@sei.cmu.edu "Life not worth dying for // (412) 268-7602 isn't worth living for". \\ // Software Engineering Institute AMIGA \X/
tomb@hplsla.HP.COM (Tom Bruhns) (03/29/91)
jol@sei.cmu.edu (DR. J) writes: >saying "Error Validating disk, Key 38 already set". I can read off the >disk but every time I try to write or delete a file, I get the system >requester telling me that disk is not validated. I tried to use a >program called validate but it didn't work. What can I do to validate >this disk? It's a Quantum 80. I hope there is a better solution than >backing up the whole disk then reformatting then restoring the files. >I really can't afford the time to do that right now. >Does anyone have a better solution? If your 'validate' program is same as the one I have, it simply forces the OS to try a validation. It won't validate if the disk is corrupt. You need to run something like disksalv on it, I believe. I recently went through a similar thing: I did a full backup, then tried an Amiga format of the disk; that didn't solve my problems, so I did a hard format (media initialization), then an Amiga format, then restored files. Yep, it took a while (probably 3 hours total, 65 meg drive). But it was worth it: I was getting occasional soft read errors before, and now it's been completely 'clean' for over a month. I don't mean to be discouraging; certainly in my case I was worried sick (well, almost) that I'd loose files and maybe have to buy a new disk. It didn't take all that long when I decided to bite the bullet and do it, and as far as I know, I didn't loose a thing.